… Patients with these small localized papillary thyroid cancers have a 99% survival rate at 20
years. In view of the excellent prognosis of these tumors, they have been denoted as low risk. …

… TSH suppression is recommended for all patients with thyroid cancer, and total/near-total
thyroidectomy is required before RAI is used. External beam radiation and chemotherapy are …

… Patients with thyroid cancer usually do not have abnormalities in serum TSH levels. An
abnormal TSH concentration decreases but by no means eliminates the likelihood of malignancy …

… % to 5% of patients who have papillary thyroid cancer at diagnosis, they … patients who have
papillary thyroid cancer and in as many as 20% of patients who have follicular thyroid cancer …

… thyroid cancer (DTC) patients have been revised several times in an attempt to achieve a
tailored clinical management reflecting the single patients’ needs… of thyroid cancer patients and …

… of thyroid cancer has tripled over the past 3 decades, with the vast majority of the increase
noted to be among small, indolent papillary thyroid … of thyroid cancer is slowing. Because …

… the thoughts of papillary thyroid cancer patients as … patients with papillary thyroid cancer
encounter this perspective at diagnosis and how these patients relate to having the “good cancer…

… papillary thyroid cancer patients as controls. Serum TSH receptor antibody (TRAb) was
measured in the Graves’ disease … Three of the papillary thyroid cancer patients in this series were …

… PROGNOSIS The prognosis for patients diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer is good, …
oped in an effort to distinguish patients with low-risk thyroid cancers from those at high risk for …

… One of these cohorts, however, only showed a gender difference for patients with papillary
thyroid cancer (PTC) (1). OS was unaffected by gender in other cohorts (5, 6). Disease …